My search for an "XML language" comes from increasingly running into walls with Ant when trying to do seemingly reasonable things (such as being able to a parameterize a target or the ability to use a list of items as input to a task). Without such features, I've resorted to using XSLT to generate Ant build scripts with alot of redudant-looking targets.
o:XML seems to do alot of what Jelly does and while it didn't work out-of-the-box, it only took about a half hour to become functional in it. And it's database extensions are the most terse example of going from SQL to XML I've seen.
Transformational languages are going to be extremely important. If Microsoft's X# language comes out without a serious Java alternative, I could see an erosion of market share.
Finally, I just wanted to say thanks to all the people who contribute to Jakarta, your hard work has made my job easier and more productive in many ways.
Ken
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